National Support Intern Office of Public Policy – LLS Policy Intern
Start Date: Summer Intern & Fall Intern
Time Commitment: 12-16 weeks Approx. 10-15 hours per week
To apply: https://www.volunteerlls.org
Compensation: Unpaid internship; maybe eligible for college/class credit
Check with your school’s Internship Coordinator BEFORE accepting the internship offer to determine if this position satisfies the criteria for receiving academic credit.
At The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), we’re passionate about our mission: to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS volunteers help carry out this mission in many ways: supporting patients, family members, healthcare professionals, and our community, driving policy advocacy, participating in our campaigns, and helping LLS build much-needed capacity.
All LLS interns agree to use our volunteer management platform to report service hours, receive email and other communication, access tools, receive LLS updates and use other features relevant to my volunteer role.
The LLS provides critical support to individuals diagnosed with blood cancers and their families. We provide support groups in many regions across the country, information and referral, access to clinical trials, and peer to peer support.
As part of a mission-centric, locally delivered and nationally powered organization, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Internship Program is an opportunity to help prepare graduate and college students taking their first steps into the workforce while creating a pipeline of motivated volunteers to support the LLS mission. LLS interns will help advance policy priorities and make a difference in the lives of those touched by blood cancer.
Position Tasks:
OPP is seeking an intern with experience or interest in health policy to assist the Public Policy Team with policy research and development. The ideal candidate would be in a related graduate program (public policy, public health, law, political science) or have a related undergraduate major (e.g., public policy, political science, public health, statistics) with skills in research, analysis, and writing. Potential projects or ongoing assignments may include:
Monitoring policy discussions: the intern may be asked to attend legislative and administrative hearings and relevant policy briefings on behalf of OPP, and to report out from these meetings for the policy team.
- Policy development: the intern will assist with policy development, including researching issues, drafting memos or other documents or policy collateral, conducting analysis of policy proposals, and related tasks.
- Policy research: the intern may assist with ongoing research projects, including outlining or reviewing draft reports, project management, and rollout of research results, dependent on the timing and cadence of such research projects.
- Policy education: the intern will work with the policy team to ensure adequate tracking of positions taken, preparation of materials for internal and external audiences, and education of internal and external audiences about LLS’ policy positions.
In addition to the above tasks, interns will have ample ongoing opportunities to learn directly from LLS staff, relating to both the professional practices within the organization and operating as a member of a highly matrixed organization and department, and to the specific policy issue areas on which OPP